Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. On Max Weber’s Contribution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Present Relevance of Max Weber’s Wertrationalität (Value Rationality)

      • Raymond Boudon

      Pages 3-31

   3. Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences

      • Ricardo F. Crespo

      Pages 32-55

3. Neo-Kantianism, Wissenssoziologie (Sociology of Knowledge), and the Sociological Theory of Money and Exchange

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Value Theory and the Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Remarks on Rickert

      • Guy Oakes

      Pages 59-78

   3. The Sociology of Knowledge and Diagnosis of Time with Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim

      • Karl Acham

      Pages 79-114

   4. Georg Simmel’s Contribution to a Theory of the Money Economy

      • Raimund Dietz

      Pages 115-144

4. Ethics and Economics in Sombart, Spiethoff, Freyer, and in Older German Business Administration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Ethics and Economics in the Work of Werner Sombart

      • Friedrich Lenger

      Pages 147-167

   3. Historical Changes and Economics in Arthur Spiethoff’s Theory of Wirtschaftsstil (Style of an Economic System)

      • Vitantonio Gioia

      Pages 168-193

   4. Hans Freyer’s Economic Philosophy After World War II

      • Volker Kruse

      Pages 194-208

   5. Business Ethics in Older German Business Administration: Heinrich Nicklisch, Wilhelm Kalveram, August Marx

      • Udo Neugebauer

      Pages 209-227

5. Austrian Economics and the Historical School

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Carl Menger and the Historicism in Economics

      • Kiichiro Yagi

      Pages 231-258

   3. The ‘Irrelevance’ of Ethics for the Austrian School

      • Raimondo Cubeddu

      Pages 259-287

6. The Historical School and American and British Economists: John R. Commons, Frank Knight, Alfred Marshall

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. The Historicism of John R. Commons’s Legal Foundations of Capitalism

      • Jeff Biddle, Warren J. Samuels

      Pages 291-318

   3. Frank Knight and the Historical School

      • Claus Noppeney

      Pages 319-341

   4. Method and Marshall

      • D. E. Moggridge

      Pages 342-371

The volume at hand gives an exposition of the tradition of the Historical School of Economics and of the Geisteswissenschaften or human sciences, the latter in their development within the Historical School as well as in Neo-Kantianism and the sociology of knowledge. It continues the discussion started in the year 1994 on the Older Historical School of Economics and the 19th century German contribution to an ethical theory of economics with the Newer Historical School of the 20th century. Economists, social scientists, and philosophers examine the contribution of this tradition and its impact for present theory. The schools of thought and their approaches to economics as well as to the cultural and social sciences are examined here not as much for their historical interest as for their poten­ tial systematic contribution to the contemporary debates on economic ethics, economics, sociology, and philosophy. The volume at hand contains the proceedings of the Fourth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy in 1996, "Economics and Ethics in the Historical School. Part B: Max Weber, Heinrich Rickert, Max Scheler, Werner Sombart, Arthur Spiethoff, John Commons, Alfred Marshall, and Others", held at Marienrode Monastery near Hannover, Germa­ ny, on March 27-30th, 1996, together with several additional invited papers.

• Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen
• Immanuel Kant
• Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften
• Theorie der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
• Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftsethik
• business ethics
• economic ethics
• ethics
• history of economic thought
• knowledge
• methodology of th
• morality
• philosophy

• Centre for Ethical Economy and Business Culture, The Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research, Hannover, Germany

  Peter Koslowski

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